I will admit I had to go look up the Transformer movie and bumblebee to find out what SHOULD have been on the cake, but..

If I were a cake decorater and got those instructions, I'd have made sure I knew what they wanted. It would sound odd to me to replace the truck with a bumblebee, so I'd definitely ask for some more info or google it myself (as I did to find out why this was a cake wreck).

You know... just because everybody and their sister felt compelled to point out the likely tribute to The Office on that wedding cake, (personally, I'd just assume that somebody else already made that leap and not put it in my own comment) I still think the cake was horrid and very post-worthy. Just sayin'. It didn't really have to go away.

And this cake... clearly the wreckreator has a serious grudge against bees.

I work in a bakery in a supermarket, and I often cringe when people order this cake... It's gotta be the worst one, but not worse then the Indianna Jones cake our decorator made the other day. Looked NOTHING like the picture. She's terrible. I'll make sure to email you if I ever find a really good wreck.

I wanted to give the decorator the benefit of the doubt that maybe they just didn't know that BumbleBee is a Transformers character. But then I decided that any IDIOT should have been able to figure it out simply by the choice of a Transformers cake. At least look it up on the internet, for crying out loud!!!

My son turned 6 earlier this month, he wanted this cake. I refused out of fear alone, lol. I could just imagine going to the store and having this cake handed to me with the gobs of icing and a plastic truck on it and I just said no. He wanted a Bumblebee cake. I said no. I'm so happy I said no.

Ok, I know nothing about Transformers, but if someone told me to replace Optimus Prime with Bumblebee I would assume it was another character/car/robot in disguise (as a child I always thought they said "acrobats in the sky"). But then again, I have common sense.

When I read this blog, I try to hide the picture so that I get the full build-up from the (excellent) writing.Even though I saw this coming a mile away, I still laughted out loud.Poor Cole?!? *Poor Cole's Mom!!* My son loves Transformers and hell hath no fury like a five-year-old with a bug on his cake when he expected a robot.

Until a couple of months ago I would have made the same mistake. It was only after sitting through a double feature of Transformers' I and II at the drive-in (yep, those still exist) with my grand-nephews, did I become familiar with Bumblebee et al.

Several houses down the street, the family of little Miranda stood, perplexed, and tried to figure out what, exactly, had gone wrong with their garden-themed, "Everybody's BUZZING About Your Birthday!" cake.

NOOOOO! How sad is that?! What a classic wreck. Crappy flames, crooked border, and the bumblebee mix-up! That's why you NEVER stray from the picture when ordering those cakes from the book at the bakery, which I've done several times. They'll ask if I want anything changed, like colors, and I say, No, I want it JUST like in the picture!

This is my kids cake. I called the bakery to find out wth happened. it was the same lady that I ordered the cake from and she said that that was the best they could do since they didn't have a bumblebee transformer toy (she told me the day before that they did and it was no problem to switch it out). I could have cried! Cole was really great about the whole thing (it was his 5th birthday). I don't really think he even noticed it wasn't right at all. The moral of the cake is never order over the phone for something like this and NEVER order from a grocery store bakery.. Next time will go to a real baker to get the cake for my other son's birthday..

There is no martini large enough to help the pain of this disaster. Thanks for all the comments!

would you believe I had to read this three times (on three separate days, no less) before I understood that there's a *transformer* named "Bumblebee"??? My initial reaction to this CW was, "they said bumblebee...." I suppose the onus is on the customer to explain every little thing: "Bumblebee, the Transformer, he's kinda yellow? And here's a picture..." etc.

@Faith: Thanks for the background! I think that story makes what the decorater did so much worse. I mean, it's one thing for her to hear "bumblebee" and fail to realize that it's pretty weird for the customer to want to replace the robot with a bug. It's much worse, however, for the decorator to understand that Bumblebee is a Transformer, to have actually held a Bumblebee toy in her hand, and then decide that the insect is an acceptable substitute.

You know, last year my nephew wanted a Transformers cake for his birthday. I offered to make it, but his mother said something about her bf not liking the Spiderman cake I'd made and decorated the year before (yellow cake, strawberry jam filling, and a very carefully piped web of red and blue gel, and probably a bullshit excuse). I was particularly incensed because she picked this particular cake when I had a much better design in mind.

Needless to say, the decorator botched the flames, as always seems to happen with this design, and the cake was twice as big as it needed to be. If he wants a Transformers cake again, I'm doing it. I already have Optimus Prime for the top.

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